Get date/time and hostname
Hello, I would like to get date, time and hostname for each event in this script, $report = @() $eventMgr = Get-View EventManager $events = foreach($event in $eventMgr.Description.EventInfo){...
View ArticleNeed a script to keep the MAC address when we export the vm to OVF file.
Hi Team, Need a powercli script to keep the MAC address when we export the vm to OVF file. From webclient we have the option to keep MAC address while exporting to ovf (please find the attachments)...
View ArticleAccessing Total Provisioned Space on Datastore Summary Tab
I'm looking at the datastore summary tab for a datastore object in vSphere Client and I see what is on the attached screenshot. I can't seem to find this property on the object in powerCLI. (At least...
View ArticleChange CPU Affinity?
Hi, I'd like to know if it's possible to set and/or change cpu affinity via a powercli command? I figured out how to return the data, not sure if it can be set or updated?
View ArticleGet-VMFolderPath doesnt work when connected to 2 vcenters
I am attempting to use someold code I originally got from here: Get-VMFolderPath to check in which vm folder our vm resides | VMware and Powershell Which extracts the folder the VM resides in given a...
View Articlenumber of Get-StatType parameters in vcenter and ESXi from powerCLi
I am not able to get all required parameters from vCenter, but I am able to get those from ESXi. like net.transmitted.average,net.received.average,disk.read.average,disk.write.average -> vCenter...
View ArticleDRSRule Module after upgrade powershell and powercli
After upgrade powershell to 5 build 10586 and powercli to 6.5.1 build 5377412 DRSRule-Master (https://github.com/PowerCLIGoodies/DRSRule) doesn't work properly.When I run f.e. my old piece of script:...
View Articleunable to export the output to csv/xls file
HiPlease find below my script. I am not able to export the output to csv/xls file. Please help me. And also i have 10 vcenters, I need this report in xls format with each VC worksheets in one excel...
View ArticleCopying PVLANs and related PGs from dVS to dVS
Hello, I wrote a simple script to copy all PGs (including PVLANs) from an existing dVS to a new one. However I can't find a way if there is a way at all, to complete the PVLANs part. I looked at Luc's...
View ArticleCan't install PowerCLI, looks to want to download the beta version
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI Untrusted repository You are installing the modules from an untrusted repository. If you trust this repository, change its...
View ArticleScript to get infomration of datastore per cluster
Hi All, Good Morning! I am trying to write a script to get all datastore in the cluster and it should give me the data in table format like datastorename, clustername,capacityGB,...
View ArticleList total number of vCPU per ESX host to avoid CPU over allocation when...
Hi,Can anyone please share your script to give a listing for all if VMHost / ESX CPU total count managed by VCenter that is available ?this is for me to be able to determine whic VMhost I can deploy my...
View ArticleScript to list VMs, IP, PowerState and Host details
Hi All, Goodday! I am looking for a script to list VMs, IP, PowerState and Host details for 1700 stand alone ESXi host. Could you please and guide for the script. Thank you. Regards
View ArticlePowerCLI to show Guest VM disk space capacity not working ?
Hi, Can anyone here please assist me in fixing the script that was created by LucD a few years ago to show the actual Guest OS disk space usage? $report = @() foreach($vm in Get-VM){ Get-HardDisk...
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Command to get license key information of a host
Hi, I would like to fetch the license key of a single host Am able to fetch list of license keys assigned in a vcenter, but unable to fetch host wise. My requirement is , i will be connecting to...
View ArticleI want to upgrade vmtools version along with vm hardware version with a...
This is how I'm planning to do - I'm going to install vmware tools version 10.1.10 by calling a exe setup file from a folder. If I use the default vmware tools install option, vmtoosl version 10.1.5...
View ArticleFinding the created date of my VMDK file
Can someone help me querying the created date of my VMDK files. I could somehow query the last modified date of my VMDK files; however, I don't see any decent way of finding the Created time stamp of...
View ArticleSearch for ISOs across all datastores, excluding those 'Inactive'
Hello! I am running into an issue when searching for ISOs. When a datastore is marked as 'Inactive', instead of the script continuing, it is halting on the inaccessible datastore. dir vmstores:\...
View ArticlePowerCli script to update DNS IP
have more than 200 windows vm's on different Vlan and now the scnerio came for us to update new DNS primary and Secondary IP for second nic.. we have 2 nic on each vm.any script to update this settings...
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Invoke-VMScript and multiline scriptText
I'v been playing around with the invoke-vmscript cmdlet. I tried to provide a multiline here-string for the -scriptText parameter, but it looks like this is not working. I want to run a small batch...
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